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cid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.

The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking. In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore. Trench.

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

ng to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.

To discharge matter from the lungs or throat bu hawking and spitting; to spit.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.

A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.

Sometimes thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The throat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.

ns). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.